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CHAMPION JUVENILE FILLY Spinaway Stakes May Reveal the Best of the Year Great Program at Saratoga Today. Whi-h is the best two-year-old filly of 1020? This question may be answered today at Saratoga with the decision of the Spinaway Stakes. With a field numerically larze and of the highest quality, perhaps the best that ever engaged in this long established feature of Saratoga racing, a great contest is promised thoe fortunate enough to be there to witness it. H. P. Whitneys Prudery, defealed but once, and that by her stable mate, the unbeaten Tryster, will most likely be the favorite. However, that good daughter of Peter Pan will meet formidable opposition from P. A. Clarks speedy Nancy Lee, W. J. Salmons Careful, .1. W. Parrishs Gossip Avenue, the western cracks Miss Muffins and Believe Idle Hour, not to say anything of her own stable companion, the unbeaten Crocus, and others of more or less known quality. Victory over such opponents will certainly entitle Prudery to the juvenile championship of her sex. On past performances Nancy Lee, which ran three-quarters of a mile in 1:11 in winning the United States Hotel Stakes, is considered to have an excellent chance of taking the Whitney fillys measure. In addition to the Spinaway, the Saratoga Steeplechase and Merchants and Citizens Handicap are stellar attractions of todays program at Saratoga. Sir Barton is assigned the difficult task of carrying 133 pounds and concedes much weight to Boniface, The Porter. Gnome and Jack Stuart in the Merchants and Citizens Handicap, at one mile and three-sixteenths. That he will prove equal to the occasion few doubt, but lie has strong opposition and it would not surprise anyone to see the speedy Gnome give the Ross champion the battle of his life. The last Saturdays racing at the Spa holds out the promise of the same high caliber sport that lias marked the earlier days of the meeting, and it is safe to say that an immense crowd will witness it.
